Contemporary Gifts: Solidarity, Compassion, Equality, Sacrifice, and Reciprocity from an NGO Perspective
Contemporary Gifts: Solidarity, Compassion, Equality, Sacrifice, and Reciprocity from an NGO Perspective
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当代礼物：非政府组织视角下的团结、同情、平等、牺牲和互惠
作者：
Beata Paragi
本研究探讨在对外援助关系的受援端的非政府组织（NGO）如何看待与捐助方的伙伴关系和合作。在西岸和加沙地带的实证研究表明，外国援助建立的关系类似于古老的礼物交换，外国援助和礼物交换都唤起了团结、平等、互惠和相关权力动态的概念。研究结果表明，即使在经济上没有回报的对外援助关系中，也存在回报礼物。接受者通过向捐赠者提供特殊材料（记录和分享痛苦或贫困的故事）来回报“当代礼物”，这导致礼物的不断流通（“以援助换痛苦”和“以痛苦换援助”，直截了当地说）。这项研究提请注意复杂的社会和政治因素，当地的非政府组织需要导航，以确保当代的礼物，而它也可能加强有关官方的外援目标背后的失踪的理由的批判理论的有效性。
This study explores how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at the recipient end of the foreign aid relationship perceive partnership and cooperation with donors. Empirical research in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has revealed that relations established by foreign aid resemble archaic gift exchange in the extent to which both foreign aid and gift exchange evoke concepts of solidarity, equality, reciprocity, and related power dynamics. The results of the research indicate that return-gifts exist even in financially unreciprocated foreign aid relations. Recipients return the “contemporary gifts” by providing a special material (documenting and sharing stories of suffering or poverty) to the donor, which leads to the constant circulation of the gift (“aid for pain” and “pain for aid,” to put it bluntly). The study draws attention to the complex social and political factors that local NGOs need to navigate to secure contemporary gifts, while it may also strengthen the validity of critical theories concerning the missing rationale behind the official aims of foreign aid.